From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 00:42:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E5116A4BF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F132243FBD for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8C7gTQW016162 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:42:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)h8C7gSc0016159; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:42:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:42:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer To: Nelis Lamprecht In-Reply-To: <1063348693.250.35.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> Message-ID: <20030912093655.O16114@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <1063348693.250.35.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for compatible server ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:42:39 -0000 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm looking to purchase a Dual Xeon with Raid support and I'm thinking > either IBM, Compaq/HP. My problem is none of these vendors will > guarantee that FreeBSD will be compatible with their systems and they > are not prepared to give me a demo machine to test. So I am basically > relying on hopefully some good solid advice on a system that will work > "out of the box" with FreeBSD. Hi! Well, I had some Compaq DL360 generation 1 and 2 running here with FreeBSD 4.8, no big hassle, except that you got no OS tools for the RAID (ciss(4)) to look on the shell for the status of the raid, but the BIOS Setup tool for the raid is fairly ok and works. gen3 are reported to have some issues with ACPI, therefore FreeBSD is somewhat ... urks... but should make progress. I also liked supermicro barebones, work perfectly well, also being used in customer projects with customers paying more than 10.000 EUR/month... Just my 0.02 EUR Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)